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The Double Helix Notes 11/02/2008 21:20:00 ← Francis: was a physicist, became a biologist after reading What is Life? • not prepared to jump into the DNA world • only worked in protein field for 2 years so far ← ← Putting together models like a 3-D jigsaw puzzle to figure out the structure of DNA won him and Watson the Nobel prize • Maurice didn’t see the value in this method ← ← Sir Lawrence Bragg published a paper using a theory that Francis had propounded in the lab and so Francis accused him of using it without giving him credit (Bragg said he came up with it himself). • Bragg considered removing Francis, but didn’t because he couldn’t get kicked out while still working on a dissertation at Cambridge. Bragg still didn’t see value of Francis at the lab though because he hadn’t contributed anything of value.

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